Over 140 traditional curry recipes, including classic and well-known dishes and unusual regional specialities. Over 450 glorious colour photographs show you exactly what you are aiming to achieve and make successful cooking easy. The definitive guide to mouth-watering, authentic curries from India, Thailand, Burma, Vietnam, Malaysia, and the islands of Indonesia and the Philippines. In its practical stand-alone format, this book is a delight to use even when your hands are covered in flour, spice or fat. The book brings together famous curry recipes from all over the world and shows how to make them perfectly, using detailed, easy-to-follow photographic instructions in a practical step-by-step format, plus essential cook's tips throughout. Includes a fabulous collection of meat, poultry, fish and vegetarian curries, rices, noodles and breads, pickles, chutneys, raitas and sambals, and advice on ingredients, techniques and preparation.

Author Biography

Contributing editor Mridula Baljekar is the best-selling author of many books on Indian cookery. Her first book, The Complete Indian Cookbook, has sold more than 250,000 copies. Mridula was cookery editor of Indian and Oriental Food & Drink magazine and she regularly contributes to magazines and newspapers. She is a food consultant and a regular presenter and demonstrator at trade and consumer food shows. As an advisor to household-name retail outlets, she spends much of her time on product development and the formulation of recipes. She also appears on television both as a guest chef and as a presenter of her own programme "Mridula's Indian Kitchen". She has recently launched her own spice blends, Mridula Baljekar's Authentic Range.